Category Archives: Art, Garden, Creativity

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As Cool as a Pickled Cucumber

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Three types of phytonutrients found in cucumbers provide us with valuable antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, and anti-cancer benefits. Cucurbitacins, lignans, and flavonoids have been the subject of active and ongoing research to determine the extent and nature of their anti-cancer properties.

We are making two batches of non-fermented pickles with the first harvest of cucumbers that are thriving in our garden, and will savor the flavor of vitamin C, beta-carotene, and manganese that  these incredible vegetables provide us.  

~T.

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Making Time for Art

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 Uprooting 21 years of an established life in one corner of a country and transplanting it thousands of miles away in an entirely different climate and culture requires attention to details that can, if you let them, consume most of the 24 hours in a given day.  The distractions have impaired my ability to fully getting my Funk on, but I’ve been making adjustments so that I have time in every day to create “art”.  

When I lived in Vermont, I would most often prefer to write songs to play on my guitar. 
Poetry was an interest I pursued while waiting for winter to pass, but it was always forsaken when the warmth of spring arrived.
My time was then spent absorbing the beauty of the natural world while plotting out the garden and germinating seeds.
California is pure inspiration and more conducive to growing things, in every sense of the word.
Today I sowed more seeds, transplanted beet starts and basil, and then took a break from gardening to play with my crayons that I like to let melt in the sun.

 

 
~T

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Growing The Funk House Art Garden, One Seed at a Time

Growing The Funk House Art Garden, one seed at a time.

Welcome to The Funk House Art Garden!

Membership to our authentic Bohemian Social Club is by invitation only, but is open to peaceful people and artists who appreciate, support, or otherwise contribute to the creative process of making art.

The Funk House Art Garden is a house with a garden and art.
Creating the Garden was an act of art and of love,
and we toil daily so that both art and love may thrive.

Henri Matisse said that creativity takes courage, and he was absolutely right.
I am courageous in this blessed place,
our haven of inspiration.
I will create with determination to inspire others
to create without fear.

What fear will you conquer today?

~T.